On Thursday 26 June 2003 21:12, you wrote:

> Is this required to ensure that memory is reclaimed?  I had naively assumed
> that Tcl/AOLserver would take care of this (that is, that variables created
> within a connection or procedure would be torn down upon closure of the
> connection without manual intervention).  Is this not the case?

This would cover only global vars and file channels, nothing else.
Any namespaced variables are not takein in account.

>
> Assuming manual reclamation is needed, I expect we would use ns_atclose and
> implement a procedure which uses [info vars] to collect the names of local
> variables and unset them (we will need to create an exclusion list of nsv*
> variables which are never unset).  Do you forsee any problems with this
> approach?

No problems. it would be helpful to know which variables are "hot" spots and
only drop those w/o being too general, if the performance is paramount.

Cheers
Zoran


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